Williams’ shockingly vivid portraits of bigotry and bias ultimately serve to expose the normally opaque medical practitioner, examining the examiner where his flaws are most flagrant…The collection moves like a surgeon: It makes you uncomfortable and looks at you naked. Then, it changes you.

The Doctor Stories are clinical vignettes at their best and most engaging: dramatic, lively, full of the heroism it takes to be human.

A stunning combination of ease and urgency.

Stories written with the swift, concise, unsentimental exactitude of a great diagnostician who also happened to be a great poet.

This is powerful but not comfortable reading, in the prose of a poet and the vision of a healer. I wish all doctors would read it.

This is powerful but not comfortable reading, in the prose of a poet and the vision of a healer. I wish… all doctors could read it. He was a good man and a good poet, for both of which we, with Dr. Coles, ‘as many in New Jersey had occasion to say during the first half of this century, say and say again: Thank you, Dr. Williams.’